Astra
Case study
Barco Control Rooms and Pixelmetrix joined forces to provide a state-of-theart total monitoring system for SES Astra’s ground control facility in Betzdorf, Luxembourg. Barco’s high quality managed monitoring solution, iStudio, provides the large overview display of both satellite communication content and alerts and won the approval of SES Astra.
The Astra Satellite System is Europe’s leading Direct-to-Home satellite system chosen by a wide range of television and radio broadcasters and multimedia service providers for the delivery of free-to-air and pay broadcast and broadband services to more than 92 million Direct-to-Home and cable households in Europe. The Astra satellite fleet currently comprises 13 satellites, transmitting more than 1100 analog and digital television and radio channels as well as multimedia and internet services. The combination of Barco’s iStudio and Pixelmetrix’ DVStation provides customers with flexible, scalable and high-performance solutions critical to the rapid and fastmoving digital environment. Barco’s iStudio, consisting of a high-quality display with rear-screen projection, the Hydra graphic controllers, and Web-based operating software, enables the continuous monitoring of the signal transmission quality of all the downlink signals from the entire Astra fleet of thirteen satellites.
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| Date | April, 2003 | |||||||||
| Location | Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG | |||||||||
| Press releases | SES ASTRA chooses integrated solution by Barco and Pixelmetrix for its Network Operations Center (en) |
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